tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post1834216305777617484..comments2024-02-16T17:52:44.944-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: Harnessing Variable Renewables: Where is the Beef?Charles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-15637376197253624202011-06-06T00:46:30.007-05:002011-06-06T00:46:30.007-05:00The USA would need like 50,000 square miles of sol...The USA would need like 50,000 square miles of solar, to account for its ~25% capacity, and thus massive energy storage too. If solar gets down to like 80 cents per watt, and if the storage is at least ten times less expensive... Then maybe.<br />Solar is like a thousand times more diffuse than the infrared emitters which themselves are a million times more so than LFTR. So, to me, LFTR development needs to be fast tracked.<br />As for any solid fuel reactor designs, why bother???<br />Dealing with machines that are not efficient, not based on natural safety ("pint" is it?) and whose waste stream is unacceptable... is totally illogical to me!<br />Now, I could be overlooking the LWR's advantages which are??? <br /><br />Is it because it is extremely difficult to remove and deal with the decay products on the continual basis that LFTR requires? Would robot like extremely thick lead shields be required for plant operators? <br />The fact that they dealt with these at ORNL makes me say <br />"LFTR is the best source of unlimited and (almost) clean energy"!fireofenergyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197100366012949976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-74700597462334646192011-06-03T11:25:58.186-05:002011-06-03T11:25:58.186-05:00Joffan, since I have not seen the book, I cannot s...Joffan, since I have not seen the book, I cannot say how the researchers reached their conclusions, but as far as I know Denmark does not have and where close to 63% of national electrical demand available in the form of wind tappable wind resources.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-78701365356456141562011-06-02T18:32:28.750-05:002011-06-02T18:32:28.750-05:00Anonymous I am complaining about IEA policy. The ...Anonymous I am complaining about IEA policy. The United States Energy Information Agency makes all of its reports available to the public free of charge and with Internet links.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-28815150190302886252011-06-02T18:17:48.764-05:002011-06-02T18:17:48.764-05:00"In the best of all possible worlds such a bo..."In the best of all possible worlds such a book would be available for free down load on the Internet[...]"<br /><br />It is.<br /><br />I can't imagine something I would have less qualms about downloading illegally than a study by an agency that is 85% state-funded and of which my country is a member state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-43228307911679851382011-06-02T18:16:23.795-05:002011-06-02T18:16:23.795-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-62868353925769326872011-06-02T17:12:36.928-05:002011-06-02T17:12:36.928-05:00I wonder how Denmark gets that massive 63% flexibi...I wonder how Denmark gets that massive 63% flexibility when it really doesn't have much in the way of backup? And how does the addition of the hydro-rich other Scandinavian countries manage to drag that value down?<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.iea.org/stats/electricitydata.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=DK" rel="nofollow">here</a>, most of Danish generation is coal then gas. Their "flexibility" seems to be based on Norway and Sweden's ability to absorb Denmark's supply and demand variability.Joffanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025437863119781181noreply@blogger.com